Recommended Library Databases
- Children's Literature Comprehensive Database This link opens in a new window
Helps with identifying children's and young adult books by reading level, age, grade, interest level, awards, honors, prizes, character qualities and more. Includes reviews and curriculum tools.
- Humanities Source and Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective This link opens in a new window
Encompasses all key fields of the humanities. Includes articles, interviews, obituaries, original works of fiction, drama, poetry, and reviews. Indexing from 1900, full text from 1909 to present.
- Literature Online (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowEnglish & American poetry, prose and drama from the 8th century to the present day plus journals, criticism & reference resources on authors and their works.
- MLA International Bibliography with Full Text This link opens in a new windowComprehensive database indexing articles, books, book chapters, and dissertations on all aspects of modern literature, language, and linguistics. Over 1000 of the indexed journals have full text. 1916-present.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Journals and ebooks from major university presses on literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more.
- Twentieth Century American Poetry, 2nd ed. This link opens in a new window
Combines Twentieth-Century African American Poetry and Twentieth-Century American Poetry. 1900s to 2000.
- Twentieth Century English Poetry This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 600 volumes of poetry. Authors include Benjamin Zephaniah, including W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Fleur Adcock, and many others. 1900 to present.
Full-Text Poetry
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Literature Online (LION) | Collection of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, 192 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. The Poets On Screen Library contains 839 clips of poets reading their own and other poets' work.
Litfinder | Includes more than 126,500 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts. Also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary.